Ligue du Sud

The Ligue du Sud (LS), founded in 2010, is a right-wing populist and regionalist political party based in southern France which originated as a splintergroup from the National Front. The party was founded in northern Vaucluse by Jacques Bompard, and it sought to protect the Occitan regional identity, develop economic prosperity and quality of life, strengthen security and social justice in the south, and to reject anti-Semitism and Francophobia. However, it subscribed to the racist "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory (which postulated that immigrants sought to outbreed and replace the native population), supported the "re-migration" of immigrants, rejected the dangers of globalization (which included opposition to the excessive mobilization of fossil fuels), supported responsible consumption, and opposed euthanasia, gay marriages, and abortion.